Fake: Ukraine to Sell Land and Cancel Pensions for the Sake of IMF Bailout

Ukraine will immediately begin privatizing agricultural land and cancelling pensions in order to receive the next installment of IMF bailout funds reported Ukraina.ru. The Ukrainian web site Vesti followed suit declaring that the price of the next IMF tranche would be millions of hectares of Ukraine’s famous black earth and pensions.

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Such claims are completely false, pensions are not being cancelled, the age of retirement is not being raised and agricultural land is not up for sale, however, Ukraine’s parliament is poised to pass legislation on pension reform and long term leasing of agricultural lands.